Holweck Prize
The Holweck Price ( engl. Holweck medal, French Prix Holweck ) is since 1946 a year in exchange for French and British physicist award price of the Société française de physique and the Institute of Physics. With the price a medal is connected, first in bronze, from 1972 in gold.
He is named after the physicist Fernand Holweck (1890-1941) named, which dealt among other things with soft X-rays, pumps for high vacuum, gravimeters and early television picture tubes and was murdered in 1941 by the Gestapo because of his membership in the Resistance. He was Director of the Curie Laboratory in the Radium Institute (now the Institut Curie ), Paris.
He is the second bi-national Prize of the French Physical Society (next to the Gentner - Kastler Prize ) and the fourth of the Institute of Physics (next to the British-German Max Born Award, the British- Australian Massey Prize and the British- Italian Occhialini medal ).
There is also a Holweck price of the Academie des Sciences.